VMware vSphere® Midsize Acceleration Kit for 6 CPUs provides the key business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. The Acceleration Kit includes vSphere Enterprise for 6 processors and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and is available at 20% off the list price of components.

This provides the key business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. The Acceleration Kit includes vSphere Enterprise for 6 processors and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and is available at 20% off the list price of components.

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vSphere Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit

VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit includes the full range of vSphereâ"¢ features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments to provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services for their businesses.

vSphere Essentials Kit

VMware vSphere® Essentials Kit, with low up-front investment, provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs.

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vSphere Essentials Plus Kit

VMware vSphere® Essentials Plus Kit adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for organizations with fewer than 20 servers.

vSphere Essentials Plus Kit

VMware vSphere® Essentials Plus Kit adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for organizations with fewer than 20 servers.

VMware vSphere® Midsize Acceleration Kit for 6 CPUs provides the key business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. The Acceleration Kit includes vSphere Enterprise for 6 processors and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and is available at 20% off the list price of components.

This provides the key business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. The Acceleration Kit includes vSphere Enterprise for 6 processors and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and is available at 20% off the list price of components.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter. And the unequalled industry-leading performance from VMware just got better with vSphereâ"¢ 4.1, enabling higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere 4.1 hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

If you'd like to provide high availability for your environment, you should also consider Essentials Plus from VMware, which provides High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter. And the unequalled industry-leading performance from VMware just got better with vSphereâ"¢ 4.1, enabling higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere 4.1 hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes VMware High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

If you'd like to provide uninterrupted and fault tolerant availability for your environment, you should also consider the Advanced Acceleration Kit, which provides VMware Fault Tolerance, based on our vLockstep technology. Fault Tolerance provides zero downtime, zero data loss continuous availability for your applications, without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware or software clustering solutions.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter. And the unequalled industry-leading performance from VMware just got better with vSphereâ"¢ 4.1, enabling higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere 4.1 hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes VMware High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

If you'd like to enable automated power and resource management of your datacenter, you should also consider the Midsize Acceleration Kit (with vSphere Enterprise), which provide VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) features. VMware DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure. This means improved service levels for all applications as DRS will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in time. VMware DPM continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter. When virtual machines in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers and powers off the rest to reduce power consumption. When virtual machine resource requirements increase (such as when users log into applications in the morning), DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure service levels are met.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter. And the unequalled industry-leading performance from VMware just got better with vSphereâ"¢ 4.1, enabling higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere 4.1 hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies from VMware. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

To help you efficiently manage power consumption and computing resources, your vSphere kit also includes Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) features. VMware DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure. This means improved service levels for all applications as DRS will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in time. VMware DPM continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter. When virtual machines in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers and powers off the rest to reduce power consumption. When virtual machine resource requirements increase (such as when users log into applications in the morning), DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure service levels are met.

If you're interested in standardizing and simplifying how your physical servers are configured, you should also consider the Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit, with VMware Host Profiles. Host Profiles allow you to capture the blueprint of a known, validated host configuration including networking, storage and security settings and apply it to many hosts to simplify setup. Host profile policies can also monitor compliance.

To take full advantage of the benefits VMware virtualization delivers, consider investing in a shared storage system. For example, with shared storage, VMware High Availability technology can protect you from a server hardware failure by restarting your VM on another server, and fetch the latest recovery point from your shared storage system.

Did you know that VMware technology provides a fundamentally better way to manage storage resources for your virtual infrastructure? This gives your organization the ability to:

Increase application uptime â€" with Storage vMotion, migrate your data with no interruption to end users